Rumors circulating say Injustice 2 announcement expected around E3 next month

Posted by John 'Velociraptor' Guerrero • May 31, 2016 at 3:17 p.m. PDT • Comments: 94

French website Gameblog released an interesting article yesterday claiming that Injustice 2 would be announced in June either at E3 or in the days before it.

Things don't stop at just an announcement date however, as Gameblog claims the title will be released in May of 2017. If true, that would give NetherRealm Studios a good chunk of time to further their development of Mortal Kombat XL with a possible Kombat Pack 3 should they choose to do so.

NetherRealm's Creative Director, Ed Boon, has teased fans of the series with the possibility of a sequel for some time, sending out fairly particular messages on his Twitter like the one below:

In an interview with the late GameTrailers back in 2012 Boon said in regards to Injustice, "We're really kind of defining this new game. We're hoping that this is going to be a franchise and have a series of games."

Seeing the success of the first Injustice combined with the boom in popularity of superhero films in our current culture, it doesn't take too much of a stretch of the imagination to see NRS doing a sequel.

We'll surely be keeping a keen ear out come E3 week, but in the meantime we'd like to know if you're hoping for an Injustice 2. Surely the general public would give it a try, but how do you think it'd do in the FGC specifically? Sound off in the comment section.

Sent in by hellbly, RYU81 and Sean_Saibot.